Cymbopogon refractus

Tufted, slightly lemon-scented perennial, culms to c. 1.2 m high. Leaves glabrous, sometimes slightly glaucous; blade flat, to 50 cm long and 3 mm wide; ligule glabrous, 1–2 mm long. Inflorescence 10–25 cm long, rather sparse with distant clusters of racemes, not or hardly hairy; racemes 1–2 cm long, mostly shorter than the subtending spathes, soon deflexed and becoming very brittle between the spikelets; glumes of fertile spikelet 4–6 mm long, the lower flat, the upper keeled; sterile lemma subequal to glumes and thinner textured; fertile lemma slightly shorter than glumes, hyaline, with or without a once- or twice-bent awn 8–15 mm long attached between the 2 apical lobes; sterile spikelet of 2 empty glumes, narrower and shorter than fertile spikelet. Flowers most of year but mainly Dec.–Mar.